QR-Linked Layout Editing for Preserving Original Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies for creating layouts for advertising media face challenges when resizing layouts due to set reduction limits, leading to potential loss of information or the need to delete parts of the layout.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that generates link information for accessing layout data stored in a server and adds this link information to edited layout data, allowing easy access to the original layout from a resized version.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If reduction limit conditions are set for image data and text data to avoid degradation in visibility, then image quality and information completeness are preserved, but the layout cannot be determined when the reduction limit is exceeded, requiring deletion of image data or text data which results in information loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a URL as an intermediary element that links to the original layout data stored on a server. When the original layout cannot be fully preserved due to reduction limits, the URL serves as a mediator that provides access to the complete original information, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining visibility quality and preserving information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the original layout data from the two-dimensional printed medium to a three-dimensional web space accessible via URL. This dimensional transition allows the original layout to exist outside the physical constraints of the reduced-size print medium, enabling full information preservation while maintaining the reduced layout's visibility quality.
2Productivity
If the layout is simply reduced from A4 size to pocket-sized tissue flyer size, then the creation process is simplified and productivity is improved, but the objects such as characters and images become small resulting in diminished visibility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy of the original layout at the reduced size for quick production, while maintaining access to the full-resolution original through a URL. This allows the reduced layout to serve as an efficient placeholder or summary version without sacrificing the ability to access high-quality versions when needed.
3Loss of information
If all objects from the original layout are preserved in the reduced layout, then information completeness is maintained, but the reduction limit conditions cannot be satisfied resulting in degradation of image quality and visibility
Solution Approach 1:
The URL acts as an intermediary that resolves the conflict between preserving all original objects and maintaining image quality. By storing the complete original layout data on a server and providing access via URL, the system can display a reduced layout with limited objects while ensuring that the complete high-quality version is accessible when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
With the technology of the present disclosure, at the time an original layout is edited to generate another layout, the original layout is easily displayed on a user terminal from that other layout. The document size of another layout data to be created by reusing a base layout data is acquired. Whether or not the document sizes are different between the base layout data and that other layout data, and in a case where the document sizes are different, the base layout data is uploaded to a predetermined server as public data, and link information for accessing the uploaded base layout data is generated. The link information for making it possible to reference the public data stored in the layout DB 410 is acquired. A two-dimensional code is generated based on the acquired link information, and the two-dimensional code is applied to that other layout data.